On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:37:05AM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/25/06, mboverload mboverload@gmail.com wrote:
I'm also interested....but I'm concerned that a vandal could find articles that are never looked at and target those. RC patrol can't get everything.
More information is a good thing, not a bad thing. If there was a mechanism by which a vandal could target rarely viewed pages, then there could be a mechanism whereby changes made to rarely viewed pages (especially by anons!) are highlighted to patrollers.
Exactly.
I think there are a lot of tools of this nature which could be created to aid the WP community in general, researchers (of which I am one), and site admins in creating, understanding, and maintaining this community. I've set up a page (Wikipedia:Pageviews) to discuss possible problems with maintaining such data, tools to counter them, and tools that use pageview sampling to do useful things for the community.
Wikipedia's individual articles are immensely dependent on readership for their survival, stability, and improvement. It would be a shame to continue to stall on this crucial issue.
As Jeremy writes, this is something which will be discussed now and through Hacking Days. If you are interested please contribute te the pages he mentions, as well as WP:Pageviews.
I and others who have taken part in this thread have ample time and resources to solve this problem. I _refuse_ to let this issue die again.
-Erik